Programming Windows Server 2003 : 9781930110984

This book focuses mainly on the new features of Windows Server 2003 and how you
can integrate them into your existing infrastructure. These new changes heavily revolve
around COM+, IIS 6, and web services.
New features have been added to COM+ so that your applications (COM+ components)
are much more stable and secure. Some of the new COM+ features are:

• Application pooling and recycling
• Support for COM+ partitions
• The COM+ Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) service
• The Low-Memory Activation Gates service
• The ability to pause and disable applications
• The Process Dump tool

Much like IIS 6, COM+ applications can be pooled to run in the same worker process.
They can also be recycled if something goes wrong with the application. The
COM+ Partitions feature allows you to create and run multiple applications with different
configurations on the same machine. For example, you can have a development
and a production application (the same DLL) running on the same machine, which
was not possible with previous versions of Component Services (which required you
to have either a development or production version running, but not both at the
same time).